Cassandra Garber Chief Sustainability Officer
General Motors
“ I said:‘ That sounds lovely’. I thought I was just creating a giant marketing brochure. It was great for my moment in life, too.” Within a week, Cassandra was in the Netherlands,“ talking about international integrated sustainability reporting and the significance of it for investor considerations”.
She adds:“ And I am neck deep in human rights, labour rights, women’ s economic empowerment, water stewardship and of course climate change.
“ As someone who’ d always enjoyed the challenge of business and someone who bores easily, once I realised there was a challenge as meaningful as solving some of the world’ s most pressing environmental and social issues, I couldn’ t go back.”
Cassandra says she felt:“ This is who I am, this is what I’ m here for. These are the challenges that I want to use business to solve. And I stand by that today. I fundamentally believe that if we can make this good for business, that’ s how we save the world.”
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